Frequent post-patch crashes/reboots from game

[Russkly]

Originally Posted by Russkly

Cheers, Adam.

Will play around tomorrow AM and post results.

You on 270 drivers?

Sean

OK, it is definitely a GPU temperature issue.

Using MSI Afterburner (and RivaTuner to view the Afterburner log file), the GPU Usage hits 100% and stays there as does the GPU fan (with the fan mapped via Afterburner to cut in at 40c and straight-line increase to 100% at 60c.

Actual GPU temp. reaches 75c.

Everything on the GPU is at 100%!!!!!

A screenshot of the log file output is attached.

This is during the Hurricane vs He-111 channel intercept quick mission.

Multiple crashes/reboots - cannot play mission through.

If I do a simple x-country flight in a Hurri or even the Spit vs. Ju-88 custom mission, I can play without crashing.

Settings:

1920x1200 (desktop resolution)
MD = H
BD = L
LD = L
F = L
VE = H
DD = H
BA = L
LS = M
G = Off
S = On
R = On

I'm going to try reducing resolution and then settings to see if that helps.

Thereafter I might try the now-famous kegetys mods, although I'd prefer to wait for the developers to do this sort of thing officially!!!!

This puppy really does push the GPU to the max.

R

[Russkly]

Originally Posted by Russkly

OK, it is definitely a GPU temperature issue.

Using MSI Afterburner (and RivaTuner to view the Afterburner log file), the GPU Usage hits 100% and stays there as does the GPU fan (with the fan mapped via Afterburner to cut in at 40c and straight-line increase to 100% at 60c.

Actual GPU temp. reaches 75c.

Everything on the GPU is at 100%!!!!!

A screenshot of the log file output is attached.

This is during the Hurricane vs He-111 channel intercept quick mission.

Multiple crashes/reboots - cannot play mission through.

If I do a simple x-country flight in a Hurri or even the Spit vs. Ju-88 custom mission, I can play without crashing.

Settings:

1920x1200 (desktop resolution)
MD = H
BD = L
LD = L
F = L
VE = H
DD = H
BA = L
LS = M
G = Off
S = On
R = On

I'm going to try reducing resolution and then settings to see if that helps.

Thereafter I might try the now-famous kegetys mods, although I'd prefer to wait for the developers to do this sort of thing officially!!!!

This puppy really does push the GPU to the max.

R

Tried 1680x1050 and it seemed to play for longer before crashing/rebooting.

Tried 1680x1050 with BD = VL and LS = L and it played through without crashing.

Interestingly, fan was at 100% and GPU temp reached 86c!!!!!

R

PS Great game when it behaves itself though, lol.

[E69_vencejo]

hi,
i have same problem. After patch blue screen (before patch launcher problem finally solved).
I test temperatures but i don´t see any problem:
First run gpuz for temperatures log.
Blue screen is with 90/91º celsius in my ring.
Then i stress graphic card with occt and with afterburner i up/down ventilators for check what happend with high temperature.
At 97º celcius, all clocks diminish its value automatically until reach 87º. Then clocks go up to 100% again.
No blue screen, no reboot.

I have the feeling that many have appeared blue screen right after i press a button or axis, or both, but this is very subjective .

i5 750, 4G ram, p55-ud5, xfi, asus 570, 1000w power, tir and x52.

[MD_Titus]

this is something i'm getting as well. can go for a couple sorties, or less than one pass, and it then it goes to a bluescreen shut down. damn thing goes off too quickly to see the rror message, any tips on where to find the crash log?

was doing it before patch as well, so don't think it's related to that, nor does it appear to be related to settings as it does it whatever they are (running models high, VE and decals medium, everything else low or off, res is 1280x1024, specs as below)

[Russkly]

Originally Posted by MD_Titus

this is something i'm getting as well. can go for a couple sorties, or less than one pass, and it then it goes to a bluescreen shut down. damn thing goes off too quickly to see the rror message, any tips on where to find the crash log?

was doing it before patch as well, so don't think it's related to that, nor does it appear to be related to settings as it does it whatever they are (running models high, VE and decals medium, everything else low or off, res is 1280x1024, specs as below)

I don't even get bluescreen - straight to reboot.

Mine was doing it before patch too, but not nearly as frequently.

I'm convinced it's a GPU temperature problem, but something is working the GPU really, really hard, and more so since the patch.

Anyway for the Windows Event Viewer, you just need to press F1 whilst in your Desktop and search for Event Viewer (for Windows 7, and apologies if you knew this already and were looking for something else lol).

There's probably an easier way, but I don't use it very often.

Post the results here and somebody will be able to diagnose the problem, I trust.

Good luck.

R

[MD_Titus]

cheers for that, didn't have a clue what it was or where to find it

system error log is

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x10000050 (0x8ad3f002, 0x00000000, 0xafa114f6, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini041111-01.dmp.

not sure what i can open the dmp file with though...

the erro that follows directly after this is

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
nvatabus

[Russkly]

Originally Posted by MD_Titus

cheers for that, didn't have a clue what it was or where to find it

system error log is

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x10000050 (0x8ad3f002, 0x00000000, 0xafa114f6, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini041111-01.dmp.

not sure what i can open the dmp file with though...

the erro that follows directly after this is

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
nvatabus

Hhhhmmm...found this:

http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=74324.0

But I think we're in the realms of needing smarter advice than what I can provide here!

R

[sizequeen]

Sounds like you're getting somewhere Russkly. Am having same issues so I guess we're going to have to reduce the visuals to a level where we can play for some time without the GPU overheating until they bring out a patch to (hopefully...) fix it.

It's a real pity though because dog-fighting with all the fx/damage levels at max looks very realistic grrr!

I don't think the flight dynamics are that realistic but I'm used to FSX and X Plane..

Adam

[E69_vencejo]

Originally Posted by E69_vencejo

hi,
i have same problem. After patch blue screen (before patch launcher problem finally solved).
I test temperatures but i don´t see any problem:
First run gpuz for temperatures log.
Blue screen is with 90/91º celsius in my ring.
Then i stress graphic card with occt and with afterburner i up/down ventilators for check what happend with high temperature.
At 97º celcius, all clocks diminish its value automatically until reach 87º. Then clocks go up to 100% again.
No blue screen, no reboot.

I have the feeling that many have appeared blue screen right after i press a button or axis, or both, but this is very subjective .

i5 750, 4G ram, p55-ud5, xfi, asus 570, 1000w power, tir and x52.

You might be right Russkly.
I repeat test again and no blue screens have been flying about 1 hour (until now never flew so long without errors).
I checked the maximum temperature and were 80 ° Celsius.

[Russkly]

Right, after some more testing (delayed when a Firefox-inspired System Restore screwed up Steam so that I couldn't get into CoD!) it is clear that CoD is baking my GPU.

First off: GPU controlled by ASUS SmartDoctor software. HyperDrive on but set to Cooling mode, not to 3D Games mode. Fan on Auto. So, GPU will be driven to run cool rather than run performance.

I turned the res down to 1600x1200 and flew the 6 Hurris vs 6 109s over water quick mission without problems (at game settings posted earlier in this thread).

Hoorah!

Then got cocky and tried the Hurris vs Ju-87s over Manston quick mission at 1680x1050.

No problems over water, but as soon as I came over land to head home - bang!!!! PC reboots itself.

SmartDoctor doesn't have a log facility like MSI Afterburner, but, having used the latter, I am sure that the GPU was maxed out at that point and simply rebooted the PC to avoid heat damage.

I'm not sure what to do now - I'm loathe to turn the settings down further, because they're hardly maxed out, and my system's not that bad (is it?). And I don't really want to install some water-cooling system for 1 game - RoF never gives me this problem on pretty high settings for example, and nor does Arma 2.

Any thoughts? Will any of the upcoming patches address this; or is it something I'm doing wrong; or is my GPU simply too wimpy?

Shame, because @ 1900x1200 at the game settings above, it looks wonderful.

R